Fields of cat tails
dance to winter’s wind sonatas,
thinking of nothing else

When we were growing up we would often pin the label ignorant on people acting unkindly toward us. At the time, it wasn’t usually a very compassionate term. But as compassion evolves, the term takes on its original meaning of not really understanding the uniqueness of the other.

Today we are more able to take unkind behavior less personally when we realize that if people really knew us, they would be kinder - they would be and act less ignorant. This is especially important in the workplace where many corporate cultures give people with power at least implicit if not explicit permission to treat people as devoid of uniqueness. (Rant over).

Those who dance are considered insane by those who can’t hear the music. / George Carlin

(This week’s Open Space Sunday theme)

This time of year, I start musing on how I can (again) in this new year, create the conditions for happy serendipity.

Each of us on Earth has contributed by exhalation and evaporation about 1,000 of the molecules in each snowflake. 12.23.03 article from the NY Times

Great article, with this physics factoid reflecting how each of the billions and billions of unique snowflakes on the planet contain a part of each of us. They are holograms reminding us of the same fact applied to our bodies - that we are each made of countless molecules that we continously exchange and share with every other being on the planet, including everyone that has every lived.

On a consciousness level, we are also made up of countless thoughts and feelings that we continuously exchange and share with every other being on the planet. This perspective from physics inspires authentic social responsibility, rooted in our intrinsic oneness. Amazing.

May all beings find peace and allow peace to inspire their minds and join their hearts.

Some of us grew up in families that propagated the Santa myth with each child until they discovered the deceit. Each of us has our own story of when we made the transition to outgrowing the belief.

Leaving old beliefs behind is like snakes shedding skins, that once shed, cannot be taken on again. This week’s Wiki Wednesday question is: What old beliefs have you outgrown and how has the outgrowth liberated you?

Yesterday my friend Lisa Hong raised the question about alternatives to the current buzz term, knowledge management. In this quantum age of realizing the primacy of knowledge, why not have good language to promote this consciousness. Knowledge is a core driver for all species of innovation and enlightenment.

I think there are two distinctions in the equation: managing the content of we know (knowledge management) and managing the process that creates the space of knowing (attention management). The distinction comes into play when our intention is to create better knowledge. Better management of knowledge may not lead to better knowledge; better management of attention will.

To understand the world, knowledge is not enough. You must see it, touch it, live in its presence and drink the vital heart of existence in the very heart of reality.

Hymn of the Universe by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin